Xenophon PCDGS
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St Mark's on the Isle of Man also lies on the route of the Millenium Way long distance footpath.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Union Mills is also a settlement on the route of the A1 Peel to Douglas road.
Rather random associating -- another "xxxx Mills" -named settlement in our "Celtic Fringe", with another connection words-wise, too: is Sion Mills in Co. Tyrone, just south of Strabane -- whose population is per Wiki, about one-third Protestant (a fair few of them are no doubt Union-ists 
) and two-thirds Catholic -- let's hope that notwithstanding such differences, the said two sorts mostly get along OK together ...
) and two-thirds Catholic -- let's hope that notwithstanding such differences, the said two sorts mostly get along OK together ...
Xenophon PCDGS
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Strabane in County Tyrone also lies on the line of the River Mourne.
The heck with it -- I'm going to skirt the very edges of what's permissible in this quiz -- will justify self on the lines of "it's folk-poetry, not gricing". There comes to mind, the local ditty concerning the 3ft. gauge County Donegal Railways' Strabane to Letterkenny line -- mentioning the estimable stationmaster Mr. Johnston...
Standing ready at the station at Raphoe (Co. Donegal, rather less than halfway between Strabane and Letterkenny) / Doesn't matter how the morning breezes blow / There's the smiling face of genial Mr. Johnston / Selling tickets as they tell him where they go / And there's folk there from Strabane / Out to smuggle all they can / Standing ready at the station at Raphoe.
Standing ready at the station at Raphoe (Co. Donegal, rather less than halfway between Strabane and Letterkenny) / Doesn't matter how the morning breezes blow / There's the smiling face of genial Mr. Johnston / Selling tickets as they tell him where they go / And there's folk there from Strabane / Out to smuggle all they can / Standing ready at the station at Raphoe.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Clydebank in West Dunbartonshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Eunan.
The burgh of Clydebank's coat of arms (valid 1892 -- 1975) featured among other things, a representation of the battleship HMS Ramillies: built at J.G. Thomas's Clydebank shipyard in 1892. Connection thence: battle of Ramillies ( 1707, in present-day Belgium), in War of Spanish Succession -- one of several therein, won by British general the Duke of Marlborough (Wiltshire). (Schoolboy aide-memoire: What was the Duke of Marlborough's telephone number? -- based on his victories in the war concerned -- BROM 4789: Blenheim 1704, Ramillies '07, Oudenarde '08, Malplaquet [generally reckoned, very nasty indeed] '09).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Aldbourne in Wiltshire was also once administered by the Hundred of Selkley.
DerekC
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Less well known than Wimbledon's tennis connections is the fact that Wimbledon Common was once the home of the National Rifle Association, which held its annual competition on ranges there. However in 1889 the association moved for safety reasons to Bisley in Surrey.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Hodsock in North Nottinghamshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Worksop Poor Law Union.
Can find nothing in the sources, about Hodsock as such; will take the liberty of switching to the nearest "heard-of" settlement, viz. Blyth, Nottinghamshire -- some seven miles north-east of Retford. Like Blyth: Chudleigh -- Devon, between Exeter and Newton Abbot -- has a church dedicated to St. Mary and St. Martin.
Anonymous10
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Tenby also has a church (and parish) dedicated to St Mary. Within this parish Augustus john was born.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Llanstadwell in Pembrokeshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Pembroke Poor Law Union.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Calver in Derbyshire also lies on the line of the River Derwent.
EbbwJunction1
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Calver is also intersected by the A623 trunk road; going North West, the next village is Stoney Middleton.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Foolow in Derbyshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Bakewell Poor Law Union.
EbbwJunction1
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The Irish Gaelic footballer Denis Joseph Crowley was born in Rathmore, County Kerry in 1945; he died on 19th February 2016 in Birdhill, County Tipperary.
Born in Rathmore, was Father Patrick Stephen Dinneen (1866 -- 1934): lexicographer / historian / writer; and ordained priest, though most of his life's work was in the "words" sphere. This gentleman is most renowned for the Irish / English dictionary which he compiled -- first published in 1904. He taught for a while at the Jesuit school of Clongowes Wood College, near Clane, Co. Kildare (about halfway between Kildare and Dublin).
Xenophon PCDGS
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Kilcullen in County Kildare also lies on the line of the River Liffey.
EbbwJunction1
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On 2nd July 1903, the Gordon Bennet Cup race ran through Kilcullen. It was the first international motor race to be held anywhere in what was then the United Kingdom and Great Britain and Ireland. The Automobile Club of Great Britain and Ireland wanted the race to be hosted in the United Kingdom, and Ireland was proposed as racing was illegal on British public roads. After some lobbying, a number of local laws were changed, and Kildare was chosen as the venue – partly because the straightness of the roads was deemed a safety benefit. The route consisted of several loops which passed through Kilcullen, Kildare, Monasterevin, Stradbally, Athy, Castledermot and Carlow.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Athy in County Kildare also lies on the line of the River Barrow.
Department of awful puns -- one current in Ireland: Q: "Why is County Kildare like a leg?" A: "Because Athy [a thigh] is in it." Leads inevitably to the hoary old thing -- which I've used before in this game -- of the Isle of Wight's various "Wonders": one of which is Freshwater, which you cannot drink.
Xenophon PCDGS
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St Andrews in Fife also has a church that is dedicated to All Saints.
A number of the detective novels by Val McDermid (a Scots lady from Fife), in which I delight: feature action in St. Andrews. A venue of some of the happenings in one of these works of V. McD.'s: is Rathmelton (also known as Ramelton), Co. Donegal -- seven miles north of Letterkenny.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Kilmacrennan in County Donegal also lies on the line of the River Lennon.